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From September 25 - 29, the IRS spent several million dollars to send about a couple of thousand Small Business / Self Employed Division managers ( and a relative handful of NTEU officials ) to Dallas for an SB/SE dog and pony show. On this page are Chapter 53's impressions of this monumental waste of time and money. |
The City of Dallas had a civil war re-enactor group on hand at the airport to fire salutes for planeloads of SB/SE managers arriving from the North, but it would have been better had they waited for the planes to land before firing the volley. |
The ride in from the airport was a bit primitive.... |
but the hotel was about average for government rates. |
The Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner were there to kiss the dog and the pony thereby starting the conference. |
The stated 'theme ' of the conference, as shown in the logo, below, which we'll be seeing a lot, was SB/SE - THROWING THE BULL AT YOU. |
The heads of all four divisions were there, modelling their snappy new uniforms designed by Boos-Allen for a mere $41 million dollars. |
They also introduced the genius who devised the Restructuring Plan... NTEU officials were kept far enough from the stage to prevent them from throwing chairs. |
SB/SE management used this illustration to show what happens when there is too much work for the remaining work force to handle. Union officials said that it is necessary to lighten the case load (which is represented by the parcels in the cart.) Management wanted the employees (represented by the jackass up in the air) to work harder. Management finally decided to lighten the cart by moving some of the work from the cart and putting it directly on the jackass's back. Union officials' observations that this would not help were dismissed out of hand. |
TIGTA, of course, maintained a heavy handed presence in an effort to catch IRS officials in embarassing capers. These two morons snuck up on one another and shot each other to death. |
Dallas has a problem getting enough rain, as indicated by this somewhat optmistic sign in front of Dallas' main park. |
Southern Hospitality was everywhere...as evidenced by this sign in front of city hall. |
